Description
Location: Reading (3 days on site per week)
Duration: 12-18 months
Responsibilities:
- Advise on SAP Enterprise Architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives
- Advise on SAP roadmap, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and future-proofing of SAP investments
- Provide strategic guidance on SAP S/4HANA adoption, SAP Cloud strategy and digital transformation initiatives
- Work closely with IT and Senior Business leaders to define SAP's role within the enterprise IT landscape
- Input to end-to-end SAP solution design, ensuring best practices in process optimisation and system integration
- Support decision-making for SAP governance, security, compliance, and risk management
- Advise on SAP architecture standardisation, ensuring consistency across all business units
- Ensure SAP's seamless integration with non-SAP systems, third-party applications, and cloud-based solutions
- Stay ahead of SAP innovations and advise on emerging trends such as AI/ML in SAP, SAP BTP, and intelligent automation
Requirements:
The successful candidate must be SC/capable of attaining DV level and have the following:
- Extensive experience as an SAP Enterprise Architect with expertise in designing large-scale SAP landscapes
- Deep knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud, and SAP integration strategies
- Strong understanding of enterprise IT architecture including hybrid cloud data management and security principles
- Proven experience in business process transformation and SAP governance frameworks
- Experience working with senior executives and business leaders to alignSAP strategies with business goals
- Expertise inSAP interoperabilitywith non-SAP applications including API-led connectivityand Middleware solutions
- Ideally experience as anSAP Solution Architectwith a focuson functional architectureandbusiness process transformation
- Strong expertiseinSAP S/4HANAand keySAP modules suchas FICO MM SD PP WM or HR
- Hands-on experiencewithSAP Activate methodologyleading Fit-to-standard workshopsand guiding AgileSAP implementations
- KnowledgeofSAP CloudRISEwithS APand deployment strategiesFamiliaritywithTOGAF,SAP Activate,andAgile methodologiesforenterprise architecture planning
Skills:
Excellent leadership stakeholder management,and communication skills
Education:
A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science information systems or a related field is preferred.